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The filibuster is stupid. I don’t care who got rid of it for fed judges

The point is Mitch got rid of it for Supreme Court nominees. So his holier than thou stance on the filibuster is bullshit. He’s perfectly fine getting rid of it if he wants to or needs to, which we saw just a few years ago.

There were exactly zero bills Mitch was trying to get 60 votes for. If the filibuster was holding something up, he would have gotten rid of it, like he did with Supreme Court nominees. He’s a partisan hack, that’s all.

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Posted: 01/19/2022 at 4:39PM

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